scrum master - PA

Sr Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Location: Blue Bell - PA

Contract Rate: $58 MAX

Duration: 12+ months

Start date: Immediate

No of Positions: 4

Job Description

Qualification: Science / Engineering Graduate

Responsibility:

• Framework Customization
• Assessment: Implement the Assessment recommendations
• Maturity Assessments: Participate on the maturity assessment
• Agile Implementation: Implement agile practices for one team suggested by the coach / agile coach
• Product Roadmap: Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning
• Coaching & Facilitating: Identify the training programs for the team members; coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, self-organization etc.; explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team
• Guide development of technical artifacts that can be used for future reference
• Process Improvements: Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint; filter the learning for the next sprint; identify best practices and ensure that they are implemented; document the learning / outcome of retrospection notes
• APO Management: Maintain oversight on the work of the scrum team under purview; collate metrics to track progress and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders; resolve any issues that may arise; escalate critical issues to relevant stakeholders for resolution
• Estimation: Guide Agile team in coming up with a size based on the requirements / features gathered; guide the team to break the tasks and assign hours into tasks; review estimates created by the team and provide feedback/ inputs
• Requirements Gathering: Facilitate all interactions that the team has with the Product Owner to gather and prioritize the requirements; review documented requirements as shared by the Product Owner; help the team write the requirement as an user story; review the backlog and provide necessary input; facilitate meetings to ensure efficiency; protect the team from external influences
• Design & Coding: Guide the teams towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring cross term coordination; facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos; support the Product Owner at client and Cognizant to keep the backlog, communicate updates, communicate impediments and maintain release plan(s); review scenarios, product features etc.
• Drive and support the team by removing impediments; liaise between the team (inclusive of developers, testers) and other practices to ensure focus on each release; identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals; track metrics and leverage scrum artefacts (e.g. backlogs, burn down charts etc.) to communicate progress to customer sponsors; remove interferences to ensure team is working efficiently (for specific accounts / projects); act as a bridge for distributed scrum; track the velocity
• Draft the release management plan; work with the product owner to ensure that the release plan is revised post every sprint; review estimates and task board to ensure that the same is updated; provide inputs for release planning activities
• Testing: Identify and suggest testing processes and tools to the team; review the suggestions made by team members and develop efficient testing processes